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'Scrooge is alive and well'

Friday, November 27th, 2020

HS2: Balfour Beatty and Vinci accused of allowing ‘Scrooge’ activities at Old Oak Common

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Airbus Filton first responders strike postponed for talks

Friday, November 27th, 2020

Securitas first responders working at Airbus’ Filton site have postponed strikes for last minute talks to go ahead

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'Dereliction of duty'

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Unite slams failure to boost sick pay with advent of new Covid-19 tier restrictions

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cider

'Preparing to battle'

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Heineken Hereford staff fighting huge ‘sack and sign’ contract cuts

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bin strike waste refuse

'We won't be treated this way any longer'

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Doncaster Christmas bin strikes announced as Suez bullying and harassment dispute deepens

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Government's 'levelling up agenda in tatters'

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak fails key workers in latest spending review

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'Act of industrial self-mutilation'

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Unite slams Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick Christmas lockout and offshoring decision

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walkers

'Festive crisp famine' warning

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Warrington-based Eddie Stobart drivers on Walkers contract ballot for industrial action

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Chancellor has 'the power and the responsibility to renew our country'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite calls on chancellor to use spending review to fend off mass unemployment and build back a fairer economy

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felixstowe docks

PPE logjam scandal

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Gov’t wasting more than £1m a day as 11,000 shipping containers of PPE sit idle at Felixstowe port

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construction

Stricter measures needed to combat Covid on construction sites

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Unite calls for separate procedures to cover both indoor and outdoor construction work to stop virus transmission

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'Kick in the teeth'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite slams government plans after reports of an upcoming public sector pay freeze

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'Devastating news for E.ON workers'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Nearly 700 job losses at energy giant E.ON ‘grim news’, says Unite

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Unite statement on Saudi Arabian human rights abuses

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Ahead of G20 summit, Unite and other unions call on UK gov't to raise concerns over human rights abuses by Saudi authorities

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'Cast iron guarantees' on UK defence spending call

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite cautiously welcomes UK defence spending boost – but warns money must be spent to support and create UK jobs

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Think tank report touting public sector pay freeze ‘an insult’

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite: Government must ‘turn warm words into hard cash’ for public sector workers

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Unite calls for toilet dignity on World Toilet Day

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

UK drivers denied access to toilets with Covid lockdown worsening situation, Unite survey reveals

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Minister must retract chlorine chicken claim

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

George Eustice must withdraw ‘worrying and incorrect’ claim that USA poultry farms ‘don’t use chlorine much’

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